Drumming

This is Carnival, but it's not Rio.Uruguay's Carnival dances to a different beat.These are the Llamadas, or calls, a conversation of drumsthat move to the ancestral beat of Candombe.Candombe means "pertaining to blacks"in African Bantu language.

The music and dance tradition dates all the way backto African slaves sent to Uruguayin the 18th century from Congo, Angola, and Mozambique.[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]There used to be three or four drums coming out, called[INAUDIBLE], to create a big group of drums.They would play in front of a house, on a street corner,and then they go through the streets of Montevideo.

Candombe won distinction as UNESCO Cultural Heritageof Humanity last year.Once the practice of slaves, it'snow the country's folklore tradition.And it's being taken up by an array of different musicians,like [INAUDIBLE], this ...